More from the Land of No…

Miami has welcomed me with open, albeit rainy, arms.

I’ll be staying here for the night at the Crowne Plaza courtesy of American Airlines. I’m eating a leftover southwest tuna wrap from Au Bon Pain, courtesy of my wallet. I’m reading through the Central America Lonely Planet book in preparation of what I hope will finally be my arival there on the morrow.

Coffee is a little hard to come by in Miami International Airport. So is a flight apparently. I saw lines of disgruntled canceled customers everywhere I went. The line for people with problems needing resolution was about 7 or 8 times the size of the line of people trying to get boarding passes and get on their flight. Normally, I would have considered this a bad sign, except this has been my reality for the last 4 days.

I spent the majority of the day waiting in lines at the airport, watching people throw temper tantrums, and being told that other people were sorry. The Miami Hilton was more than happy to tell me to get lost when I requested they throw in an internet connection to complement their lackluster room and old uncomfortable looking bed.

So, I took another trip back to the airport to ask American Airlines to switch me to another hotel with internet. This meant standing ina  400 some odd person line for a while until I was plucked out and sent on over to the short line to speak with yet another person whose accents was almost more than I could grasp.

$25 dollars in food vouchers and 30 minutes later, I was on my way to the lovely Crown Plaza where I find myself in a wonderful room with free internet and a clean, comfortable bed. I’m even on the “Executive Floor,” or so the elevator tells me.

Tomorrow morning I’ve got an 8:30 wake up call and a 10:35 flight. My hotel i booked in Belize for 4 nights is expiring tonight, so we’ll have to see if they have room for me when I arrive. A couple days after that I expect to be diving in the shark laden waters of Blue Hole, then off to the gang ruled Guatemalan border following a walk through the Rainforest Medicine refuge in central Belize.